Robert Gottlieb Quotes

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1931

Topics

SometimesCriticsAlwaysDisagree

It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

Alvin Lee

GoodHockeyGoQuitSoundPaycheck

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

GreatSmallAlwaysLikeGangsters

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

TravelWholeAbsurdTravellerAgent

Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.

Tucker Carlson

FearWarPeopleYouTargetWill

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Roger Maris

GoodDieYouGiveReviewsLike

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

Robin Marantz Henig

YouBackHeadphonesHeadLittle

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Robyn Hitchcock

WorkWantMoreSoftJustAfter

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Mary Lou Retton

HomeMediaImportantAwayGlare

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

Mary Oliver

CareTake CareTakeMustHouses

Everyone should go up there and fight. Go up there and go through opponents and earn their opportunity to fight for the title, not talk their way into the title.

Jose Aldo

OpportunityFightGoWayTalkEarn

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

Dee Dee Ramone

MusicReligionListeningBadHearing

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine.

Chris Kilham

CoffeeRichCaffeineGroundFlavor

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